Introduction to SQL and MySQL

Learn the basic concepts and functions that you will need to make queries with the most popular data manipulating programming language, SQL. This course is about SQL commands in the main. You will learn the basics of queries. This is a fundamental part of databases so it is definitly worth learning.

Section 1:

setting up the environment

installing MySQL

relational databases theory

Section 2:

SQL and MySQL basics

creating databases and database tables

updating tables

dropping tables

Section 3:

basic SQL and MySQL commands

select, where and wildcards

ORDER BY and GROUP BY commands

Section 4:

joining multiple database tables

Section 5:

advanced SQL and MySQL

subqueries

transactions (ACID principles)

views

indexes and constraints

Learning the fundamentals of SQL is a good choice and puts a powerful tool at your fingertips. SQL is easy to learn as well as it has excellent documentations.

The most important fact about SQL that it is used in almost every speciality from software engineering to financial analysis, so understanding the concepts and basic language features can prove to be very marketable.

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